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18609	... [ example snipped ] I've never quite understood why the networking industry chose to forego the huge bandwidth advantages of coax for the twisted-pair ...	John Tomany f4wcs@...	Jul 3, 2003 1:41 pm
18610	... This sounds MUCH more like an older printer cable is being used on a modern (and fully-functional) bi-directional parallel port. It also is more likely to...	John Tomany f4wcs@...	Jul 3, 2003 1:50 pm
18611	Just a clarification on the baluns and what function they actually serve. It finally dawned on me that these things are meant to allow someone to use a UTP...	James Miller jamtat@...	Jul 4, 2003 2:37 am
18612	ha!!! that cable question touches a hassle I have here: the still-rather-new HP 945 just refuses to print straight ASCII output when connected to the...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Jul 4, 2003 5:15 am
18613	... The ONLY thing I've seen baluns used for with coax is to provide something of an "airgap" to deal with grounding issues back in the glory days of ARCnet. ...	Bob George mailings02@...	Jul 6, 2003 12:09 am
18614	... The more expensive items probably WORK. A balun won't. Baluns can be used to provide MEDIA conversion -- usually to help with grounding issues on older ...	Bob George mailings02@...	Jul 6, 2003 12:28 am
18615	This is very easy if you are using DOS 6.x. It is a feature included with MS-DOS operating system above 6. If I have time I will try to find a DOS reference...	Inigo M.de Azagra y d... imazagra@...	Jul 14, 2003 5:02 pm
18616	FYI: Here is another approach to firewalls http://m0n0.ch/wall/ You all might find it an interesting idea to test. John Oram ... To unsubscribe from SURVPC...	John Oram norami@...	Jul 19, 2003 2:23 pm
18617	Hi, folks -- Someone wrote to me a few days ago about his need for the setup disk for the IBM PC AT 5170. Three or four years back, I recall downloading one...	Jerry J. Haumberger jerryjh@...	Jul 23, 2003 9:49 am
18618	Hello Jerry - Last time I did anything with IBM hardware there was a guy in Germany who downloaded all of IBM's free drivers etc. and had used IBM parts he...	Charles Angelich cangelich@...	Jul 23, 2003 11:59 am
18619	Hi -- Thanks for the lead, but Hal McArgle on the other survpc list happened to have the program and will be sending it to the guy through an e-mail ...	Jerry J. Haumberger jerryjh@...	Jul 23, 2003 9:06 pm
18620	A question for enlightenment from anyone who knows about DOS _and_ Linux, and of what happens with the MBR; I didn't get much of that from the so-called Linux...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Aug 3, 2003 2:40 am
18621	Hiya Heimo! I'm not yet fully awake, so let me just give a quick summary of things relating to MBR and installing Linux that I've encountered. 1. The only real...	Bob George mailings02@...	Aug 3, 2003 4:58 pm
18622	Great thanks, Hal and Bob ! Indeed I still have the Norton book; regrettably, it's not verbose on precisely one salient point here - the location/address of...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Aug 4, 2003 3:10 am
18623	I thought I already knew about all the bootloading programs out there, having been keenly interested in multi-booting (having multiple OS's on my computer) a...	James Miller jamtat@...	Aug 7, 2003 2:13 pm
18624	Hi everyone, this is really off topic, but one never knows who may have a company idea. In one of my other lives, I am a development consultant working with...	karen lewellen klewellen@...	Aug 11, 2003 7:43 pm
18625	... I know of at least one credit bank in Las Vegas that used to dump 'em by the palette to non-profits etc. Sadly, I had to chide them for not properly wiping...	Bob George mailings02@...	Aug 11, 2003 8:09 pm
18626	Karen: You asked for ideas: Do you have any problems with new computers vs older SurvPCs, if the price were the same = a charitable donation with little or no...	John Oram norami@...	Aug 11, 2003 8:32 pm
18627	I have an old operating system on 5.25" floppies that I want to install on a PC that doesn't have a 5.25" drive, or a bay to install one. Is there any way I...	Robert C Wittig rwittig@...	Aug 12, 2003 8:07 pm
18628	Robert, Yes, there is. In a system having both kinds of drive, log onto the 5.25 inch disk (let's assume it's A:), place a 3.5 inch disk in the smaller drive...	Garry Hamilton kidrhino@...	Aug 13, 2003 12:29 am
18629	Hello Garry, Thanks!!! -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ A business is as honest as its advertising. . Tuesday,...	Robert C Wittig rwittig@...	Aug 13, 2003 1:17 am
18630	I am hoping this is the proper place to ask. I was using a 486 Zenith with MS-DOS 3.3 until it stopped working today. When I turned it on, the only thing...	Sonya Carlson sbudach@...	Aug 13, 2003 8:05 pm
18631	... Hash: SHA1 ... It's kind of hard to give you more specific information since you haven't provided much information, but I'll do what I can. I assume you...	Jeffrey H. Johnson jeff@...	Aug 14, 2003 1:48 am
18632	... Hash: SHA1 ... Disk Copy Plus is another MS-DOS solution that works well. It's 10+ years old but still runs well on DOS and 2000/XP's NTVDM. ...	Jeffrey H. Johnson jeff@...	Aug 14, 2003 2:01 am
18633	On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:50:01 +0000 Sonya Carlson ... OK, I am going to guess that somehow the bios settings have been changed in the part that deals with...	Samuel W. Heywood sheywood@...	Aug 14, 2003 2:30 am
18634	... Dear Sonya, This is indeed the place to ask. It would appear that your computer no longer "believes" that the hard drive has valid data on it. This could...	Anthony J. Albert albert@...	Aug 14, 2003 9:42 pm
18635	If you do not care if the 3.5 disk has the format, usually less storage and you can get to a machine which has both a 3" and 5" drive you can do a diskcopy. [...	David Johnson djohnson@...	Aug 15, 2003 2:43 am
18636	... With a machine this old is is also possible that the BIOS has lost the hard drive parameters. This is usually due to the battery wearing out, but may be...	Robert Steimetz rob@...	Aug 15, 2003 1:30 pm
18637	... So far, everyone has provided good info that is applicable to this problem. But I'm surprised that no one mentioned a just- as-common cause (on an older...	John Tomany f4wcs@...	Aug 15, 2003 9:17 pm
18638	... Good suggestions; should have thought of this, myself, especially with the age of the machine mentioned. I'd certainly agree that this is a strong...	Anthony J. Albert albert@...	Aug 18, 2003 2:18 pm

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